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Bridge Survey 2008 2008 A bat survey of bridges identified by the All- Ireland Daubenton’s bat Waterway Survey as potential bat roosts. IRISH BAT MONITORING PROGRAMME Bat Conservation Ireland 11/30/2008 A bat survey of bridges identified by the All‐Ireland Daubenton’s bat Waterway Survey as 2008 potential bat roosts. Irish Bat Monitoring Programme A bat survey of bridges identified by the All-Ireland Daubenton’s Bat Waterway Survey as potential bat roosts. November 2008 Bat conservation Ireland, www.batconservationireland.org Citation: Aughney, T. (2008) A bat survey of bridges identified by the All-Ireland Daubenton’s bat Waterway Survey as potential bat roosts. Irish Bat Monitoring Programme. Bat Conservation Ireland, www.batconservationireland.org. 2 A bat survey of bridges identified by the All‐Ireland Daubenton’s bat Waterway Survey as 2008 potential bat roosts. CONTENTS Executive Summary 4 1. Introduction 5 1.1 Domestic Legislation 1.2 The EU Habitats Directive 1.3 International Treaties 1.3.1 The Berne Convention 1.3.2 The EUROBATS Agreement 2. Bats in Ireland 9 2.1 The National Status of Irish Bat Species 2.2 All Ireland Daubenton’s bat Waterway Survey 2.3 Bridges and bats 3. Bridge Survey 12 3.1 Survey area 3.2 Methodology 4. Bridge Survey Results 13 4.1 Surveyed Bridges 4.2 Bridge Grading 4.3 County by County Results 4.4 Non-bat fauna recordings 5. Summary and Recommendations 28 Bibliography 29 Acknowledgements 30 Appendices 31 3 A bat survey of bridges identified by the All‐Ireland Daubenton’s bat Waterway Survey as 2008 potential bat roosts. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Bat Conservation Ireland (BCIreland) received funding (60%) from The Heritage Council to undertake this project. This report presents work undertaken during the field season of 2008. BCIreland surveyors surveyed 80 bridges in 15 counties across the country. Twelve percent of these bridges had evidence of bats while 31% of bridges surveyed were considered suitable for roosting bats (i.e. crevices present within bridge structure suitable for roosting bats). A 1km stretch of waterway in the vicinity of bridges were originally surveyed at least once for activity of Daubenton’s bats (Myotis daubentonii) by All-Ireland Daubenton’s bat Waterway Survey volunteers in August 2006 and/or 2007. As part of the All-Ireland Daubenton’s bat Waterway Survey each volunteer team is assigned survey points selected from the EPA’s National Rivers Monitoring Programme. Such survey points are generally bridges where the EPA undertakes water sampling and macroinvertebrate surveys as part of their water monitoring programmes. During analysis of volunteer survey forms participating in the All-Ireland Daubenton’s bat Waterway Survey it was noted, in some instances, that a high level of bat activity was recorded adjacent to the bridges. Therefore, BCIreland applied for funding to undertake a survey of eighty bridges covered under the monitoring programme to determine whether such bridges were roosting sites for bats. Bridges are considered to be important roosting sites for bats, in particular, the stone masonry bridges. Irish bat species have been recorded in such bridges in previous independent surveys (Shiel, 1999 and Materson et al, 2008). Such species include: Daubenton’s bat, Natterer’s bats (Myotis nattereri) brown long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus), whiskered bat (Myotis mystacinus) and common pipistrelle bat (Pipistrellus pipistrellus). Additional surveys commissioned by local authorities have focused on stone masonry bridges because of their heritage value (e.g. Keeley, 2007). Therefore, an inventory of important bridges in relation to bats can provide local authorities with information on ‘best practice’ for future works on bridges as a result of road maintenance and vehicular access. Therefore the objectives of this study were: 1. Identify bat roosts in bridges 2. Grade all bridges surveyed according to their importance as potential bat roosts 3. Identify bat species roosting in bridges 4. Raise awareness of the importance of bridges to bats 5. Provide such information (in a the form of the present report) on www.batconservationireland.org website for use by planning authorities and other interested bodies 4 A bat survey of bridges identified by the All‐Ireland Daubenton’s bat Waterway Survey as 2008 potential bat roosts. 1. INTRODUCTION Bats constitute a large proportion of the mammalian biodiversity in Ireland. There are currently ten species of bat in Ireland representing two families. This forms almost one third of Ireland’s land mammal fauna. Nine species are vesper bats and all the vespertilionid bats have a tragus (cartilaginous structure found inside the pinnea of the ear) and are distributed throughout the country. Nathusius’ pipistrelle Pipistrellus nathusii and the Brandt’s bat Figure 1: Daubenton's bat (Tina Aughney) Myotis brandtii are recent editions to the list. The tenth species, the lesser horseshoe bat Rhinolophus hipposideros, belongs to the Rhinolophids and has a complex nose leaf structure. This species current distribution is confined to the western six counties: Mayo, Galway, Clare, Limerick, Kerry and Cork. Bats are a species rich group widely distributed throughout a range of habitats in the Irish landscape. Due to their reliance on insect populations, specialist feeding behaviour and habitat requirements, they are considered to be valuable environmental indicators of the wider countryside (www.bats.org). A species profile of each bat species is provided in the Appendices. Irish bats are protected under domestic and EU legislation. In addition there are a number of international treaties that Ireland is signed up to requiring the legal protection of bats and their habitats in Europe. 1.1 Domestic Legislation Under the Republic’s Wildlife Act (1976) and Wildlife (Amendment) Act (2000) it is an offence to intentionally harm a bat or disturb its resting place. 5 A bat survey of bridges identified by the All‐Ireland Daubenton’s bat Waterway Survey as 2008 potential bat roosts. 1.2 The EU Habitats Directive Article 12(1) of the ‘Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and wild fauna and flora (Habitats Directive) states: “Member States shall take the requisite measures to establish a system of strict protection for the animal species listed in Annex IV(a) and their natural range, prohibiting: a) all forms of deliberate capture or killing of specimens of these species in the wild; b) deliberate disturbance of these species, particularly during the period of breeding, rearing, hibernation and migration; c) deliberate destruction or taking of eggs from the wild; d) deterioration or destruction of breeding sites or resting places.” Figure 2: soprano pipistrelle bat (Tina Aughney) The EU Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) lists all Irish bat species in Annex IV and one Irish species, the lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros), in Annex II. Annex II includes animal species of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) because they are, for example, endangered, rare, vulnerable or endemic. Annex IV includes various species that require strict protection. Article 11 of the Habitats Directive requires member states to monitor all species listed in the Habitats Directive and Article 17 requires States to report to the EU on the findings of monitoring schemes. 6 A bat survey of bridges identified by the All‐Ireland Daubenton’s bat Waterway Survey as 2008 potential bat roosts. 1.3 International Treaties Ireland is also a signatory to a number of conservation agreements pertaining to bats such as the Bern and Bonn Conventions. The European Bats Agreement (EUROBATS) is an agreement under the Bonn Convention and Ireland and the UK are two of the 31 signatories. The Agreement has an Action Plan with priorities for implementation. Devising strategies for monitoring of Figure 3: Common pipistrelle (Tina Aughney) populations of selected bat species in Europe is among the resolutions of EUROBATS. 1.3.1 The Berne Convention Article 6 of the “Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats’ (Berne Convention) reads: “Each Contracting Party shall take appropriate and necessary legislative and administrative measures to ensure the special protection of the wild fauna species specified in Appendix II. The following will in particular be prohibited for these species: a) all forms of deliberate capture and keeping and deliberate killing; b) the deliberate damage to or destruction of breeding or resting sites; c) the deliberate disturbance of wild fauna, particularly during the period of breeding, rearing and hibernation, insofar as disturbance would be significant in relation to the objectives of this Convention; ...! Appendix II lists strictly protected fauna species and this list includes “Microchiroptera, all species except Pipistrellus pipistrellus”. 1.3.2 The EUROBATS Agreement The ‘Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats’ (EUROBATS) was negotiated under the ‘Convention for the Conservation of Migratory Wild Species’ (Bonn Convention) and came into force in January 1994. The legal protection of bats and their habitats are given in Article III as fundamental obligations: 7 A bat survey of bridges identified by the All‐Ireland Daubenton’s bat Waterway Survey as 2008 potential bat roosts. “1. Each Party shall prohibit the deliberate capture, keeping or killing of bats except under permit from its competent authority. b) Each Party shall identify those sites within its own area of jurisdiction which are important for the conservation status, including for the shelter and protection, of bats. It shall, taking into account as necessary economic and social considerations, protect such sites from damage or disturbance. In addition, each Party shall endeavour to identify and protect important feeding areas for bats from damage or disturbance.” The Agreement covers all European bat species except non-migratory endemics of the Atlantic Islands. The fundamental obligations cited above are fulfilled by national law in accordance with the EU Habitats Directive.
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